Read-Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories: 8 Fluency-Boosting Plays With Easy Activities That Teach Key Literary Elements (Teaching Resources) - Softcover

Lewis, Mack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545204569 ISBN 13: 9780545204569

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2011

Synopsis

Introduce students to Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and other well-known authors with this collection of plays based on their classic short stories. These engaging plays will expand students' literary knowledge, while "rehearsing" the parts will encourage the repeated readings they need to build their fluency and comprehension skills. Also includes discussion prompts and easy activities designed to help students identify and understand plot, setting, character, and theme.

• Each play includes a vocabulary list
• Plays have been student-tested and teacher-approved
• Develops intonation, phrasing, pacing, expression, and other key aspects of fluency
• Rehearsing the plays gives students a meaningful reason for repeated reading

About this title

About the Author

Mack Lewis is a National Board Certified teacher with a degree in English and a post-baccalaureate certificate in education from Southern Oregon University. He has taught intermediate grades in Central Point, Oregon, since 1993, and has been a frequent contributor to Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine, in which more than a dozen of his plays have appeared. His other Scholastic Teaching Resources titles include Read-Aloud Plays: Symbols of America and Super Sentences and Perfect Paragraphs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0545204569
• ISBN 13: 9780545204569
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72